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Guyanese in London protest schoolboy’s killing

Jul 03, 2010 News

Guyanese protested Thursday outside Guyana High Commission at Bayswater in Central London against human rights violations in Guyana. This protest was organised to seek justice for 16-year-old schoolboy Kelvin Fraser, who was brutally gunned down at school by the Guyana Police on Monday, June 7, 2010.
It has taken over three weeks for a charge to be made against the policeman believed to be responsible for killing Kelvin Fraser in the presence of school children, at Patentia Secondary School.
Police were called to the Patentia Secondary School to settle reports of a scuffle.  No one involved in this school ground scuffle, was in possession of, or brandished guns, knives or any form of weaponry.
Therefore the shooting can be deemed as unprovoked, unnecessary and can be seen as murder by which an innocent child lost his life, the protesters contended.
The London protest started at 3pm and lasted for one hour.  Protesters were asked to leave the pavement in front of the Guyana High Commission after police arrived to loud chants by more than 25 placard-bearing protesters.
The protesters relocated across the street and continued protesting, shouting “Stop human rights violations in Guyana.”  “Justice for Kelvin and “PPP,  racist government.”
Organisers of the protest, Mr Norman Browne and Dr Michelle Asantewa, in a written statement said that Guyana is now effectively a police state in which the police are now empowered by a shoot to kill policy.
It seems clear that a shoot to kill policy exists because the policeman who shot young Kelvin Fraser did not intend to disarm him, they said.
The police’s intention was to kill and therefore must be seen as murder, the two added.
“We the organisers and those protesting on this day condemn the blatant human rights violations which seem to have become a norm in Guyana.
The issue of human rights is more urgent than ever before in Guyana if there is to be any hope ending mindless slaughters of innocent people in Guyana.”
The statement questioned who is accountable for the many acts of extra-judicial killing by the Guyana Police Force that go uninvestigated.  “Charges made against the police never lead to convictions because corruption in Guyana seeps from the government and through the legal system.”
According to the organisers, the protest is the basis to form an organisation or to join others that seek to bring human rights violations in Guyana to international focus.
“We aim to lobby the government to stop sanctioning these atrocities by empowering the GPF and other security forces to shoot to kill.
We aim to gather support from Guyanese across the diaspora to participate in campaigns that highlight Guyana’s situation to respective international bodies concerned with such human rights violations.”

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